Erection date: /6/2007
City of Westminster
Gas light & Coke Company, 1813-1937, site of a gasworks which provided the first public supply of gas in the world.
Unveiled by councillor Carolyn Keen, Lord Mayor of Westminster.
SW1, Seacole Building, Great Peter Street
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gas Light and Coke Company
Royal Charter granted in 1812 to Gas Light and Coke Company for street lighti...
Founded by Frederick Albert Winsor (who also gave the world's first demonstra...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Gas Light and Coke Company
The ancient parish of St Margaret's was divided into St Margaret's and St Joh...
The bronze of the plaque is so dulled that it does not photo well, all except this somewhat distressed enameled insignia.
St Olav's Church was designed by John Love Seaton Dahl. Crown Prince Olav was present at the laying of the foundation stone, 1926, and th...
There is an identical plaque at the entrance to the tunnel on the north bank of the Thames.
Plaque erected on the 30th anniversary.
Henry Hall, 1898 - 1989, dance band leader and broadcaster, lived here 1932 - 1959. English Heritage
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